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COMBINED SUIT FOR CHILDREN.

Patented Aug. 19, 1884.

No. 303,732. M w 7? jrroa/vs r1:

NITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. HIBBARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MARSHALL FIELD, HARLOW N. HIGINBOTHAM, AND JOHN G. MGIVILLIAMS, OF SAME .PLACE, LORENZO G. IVOODIIOUSE, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., AND JOSEPH N. FIELD, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

COMBINED sun" FOR CHILDREN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,732, dated August 19, 1884.

f 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM It. HIBBARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefnl Improvement in Combination-Suits for Children, which is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my improved combination-suit, one leg being broken away. Fig. 2 is a detailed side view of the middle part of the same suit.

The same letters denote the same parts in 15 both figures.

My invention relates to that class of underwear called combination or union suits, in which a shirt and drawers are combined, detaehably or otherwise, so as to constitute vir- 2O tnallyone garment. In these combinationsuits the shirt or waist usually has a row of buttons on its lower margin, to which the up per margin of the drawers is attached, the drawers being generally divided at the sides for a short distance, so as to form a front or back flap, or both, which can be let down. In this way the abdomen-that part of the body which most needs protection against sudden lowering of temperature-As frequently ex- 0 posed to it, the more frequently because clothing of this class is almost exclusively worn by children, who are not only thoughtless themselves, bnt are often committed to the charge of thoughtless attendants. The object of my 3 5 invention is to remedy this defect of the suit,

. Application filed March 21, 1883. (No model.)

( and I do it by extending the shirt so far below the line on which the drawers are attached to it that the abdomen shall always be covered.

In the drawings, A denotes the shirt portion of the combination-suit. At the waist it is surrounded by a band, A, on which is a row of buttons, a, to which the upper margin of the drawers portion B of the suit is attached. In combination suits as heretofore made this band A is the lower margin of the shirt. I extend the shirt below the band to the line (1/ so far that when the flap b of the drawers is turned down the body of the wearer will still be protected, and when the drawers are completely attached to the shirt be a broad overlap at the junction. This extension of the shirt is most important at the front, but without any material increase of expense can be continued all the way around.

\Nhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination-suit consisting of the drawers 13, having the reversible front flap, b, and

the shirt A, having the waistband A, arranged to correspond with the upper .margin of the drawers, and provided with buttons, and the front flap, c, extending below the waistband and equal in breadth to the front flap of the drawers, substantially as and for the purpose described.

\VILLIAM R. IIIBBARD.

Witnesses:

THAI) S. HAMAKER, JonN Srnwnnr.

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